Mortality among Infants of Black as Compared with White College-Educated Parents
New England Journal of MedicinePublished 4 June 1992
Kenneth C. Schoendorf, Carol J. Hogue, Joel C. Kleinman, Diane L. Rowley
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In contrast to black infants in the general population, black infants born to college-educated parents have higher mortality rates than similar white infants only because of their higher rates of low birth weight. Black and white infants of normal birth weight have equivalent mortality rates.
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